(British) A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally.
The police picked him up, reared him, and he had been a tracker ever since, except for periodical walk-abouts.
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(AU) A period, often extended, during which an Aboriginal person left a station or settlement to travel on country, typically seasonally or for traditional cultural reasons; a journey by foot taken by an Aboriginal as a temporary withdrawal from white society.
The police picked him up, reared him, and he had been a tracker ever since, except for periodical walk-abouts.
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A walking trip.
While the world altered dramatically during the course of her reign, the monarchy did too, though rather more imperceptibly: the walkabouts that increasingly characterised royal appearances, the pop concerts at Buckingham Palace, the thr…
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